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Mast is a collective noun for fruits, nuts, seeds and berries. You have probably noticed or heard people commenting about a super-abundance this autumn including apples, brambles, sloes and acorns.

Leicester High School for Girls proudly hosted the UKMT Primary Team Maths Challenge 2025. They welcomed pupils from Market Harborough C of E Academy, Fleckney Primary School, St Joseph’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, St John Fisher CVA, and Avenue Primary School for a day of exciting mathematical challenges.

I bring you tidings of great joy. Burton Overy are holding their Christmas tree festival again in St Andrew’s church, from Friday 5 December till Sunday 7 December. Once again, our beautiful church will be filled with imaginatively decorated trees, with countless themes.

“Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world” ― Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A history of the world through the eye of a needle

Join us for an evening of Christmas music with Salvo Brass on Friday 28 November at 7.30pm. Tickets are £15 to include tea or coffee and homemade cake. All proceeds will go to St Wilfrid's Church. Tickets can be purchased from The Well, or by contacting Tel:07540719298.

We are seeking some extra volunteers to assist with the distribution of the Kibworth & District Chronicle. It only takes place once a month and possibly lasts no more than half an hour! The Distribution/ Publication date is always shown on the back of the Kibworth & District Chronicle for the following month.

Dr Miriam A Wohl

Carole Craig has handed the Kibworth & District Chronicle another item of Kibworth memorabilia - a copy of the Kibworth Carnival programme for August 1978 - the year the Chronicle commenced publication.

I recently attended the funeral and burial of a former neighbour. The service was held at Great Glen crematorium. The interment was in the natural burial area at Kibworth Cemetery on the A6, Harborough Road.

The public parish council monthly meeting was held on 28 October 2025 in the Studio at the Kibworth Community Hub.